He sees it as being like old times.
Posted on 05/21/2008 11:01:35 AM PDT by Dawnsblood
“We have told them what they have to do, and if they do it, there will be no problem as far as we are concerned”! As if that weren’t clear enough, he warned America and its allies that “if you want to have good relations with the Iranian people in the future, you should acknowledge the right and the might of the Iranian people, and you should bow and surrender to the might of the Iranian people. If you do not accept this, the Iranian people will force you to bow and surrender.”
Would Iran’s Thug-In-Chief regard Obama’s invitation to sit down and chat as a sign that he was willing to “bow and surrender”? There is no reason to think he would regard it in any other way. Islamic law stipulates that Islamic forces may only ask for a truce with the enemy under two conditions: if they have a reasonable expectation that the enemy may convert to Islam, or -- more commonly -- if the Muslims are weak and need to buy some time to recover their strength to fight again more effectively. With this understanding, the Iranian mullahs might be forgiven for assuming that if Obama is coming to them hat-in-hand, he must be weak. Given Ahmadinejad’s oft-repeated declarations that Israel will soon cease to exist (it was only last week that he said that it was “on its way to annihilation”), weakness might not be the wisest thing to project to them at this point.
Unless, of course, the bright new President Obama is prepared to deal with a nuclear mushroom cloud over Tel Aviv. That will certainly give him and Ahmadinejad plenty to talk about.
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They’ll see him as a cspineless liberal, and will redouble their efforts to have nukes and to destroy us. And with good reason: Obama is a spineless liberal.
“Sounds completely reasonable to me.” - BHO
They’ll see him as a spineless liberal, and will redouble their efforts to have nukes and to destroy us. And with good reason: Obama is a spineless liberal.
As a fellow comrade in the quest to destroy “the Great Satan”.
We already know. Carter 1979.
Uncle Barack is that you?
How will they read him?
In Arabic, I’m sure.
My guess is that Iran would figure that they can win him over by talking to him. And they’d be right.
BHO would open himself up to a thousand subtle insults, insults of protocol, politeness, and cultural insults that he may or may not pick up on.
Certainly Iranians would understand, and snicker at the most powerful man in the world.
The Iranians would make the most of any propaganda programs BHO fell into or went along with it.
Here is a good question, what would Obama wear? If his hosts offered traditional garb and told him it would be polite to wear it, would he put on a robe and turban for the world’s cameras?
As an easy mark...a pushover.
No, in Farsi.
He sees it as being like old times.
A most benign reading would involve the quote P.T. Barnum provided many years ago.
Like the fool he is!
That's what I get for tryin' to be funny.
Would Iran’s Thug-In-Chief regard Obama’s invitation to sit down and chat as a sign that he was willing to “bow and surrender”?......
Is the Pope Catholic?.....
As a brother in the mujahadeen.
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